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The desire to reduce NOx at low ambient temperatures drives the use of heating methods to make DEF available by thawing the solution in the tank. Methods to validate modelling used to design hardware options require testing to gauge the accuracy of the prediction. Using a climatic chassis dynamometer (CCD) to demonstrate the guidance procedure set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expensive and time consuming. A method of utilizing a flow controlled cooling supply combined with a standard cold chamber is described as a precursor to running the demonstration in the CCD. Testing multiple quantities of design iterations produced unexpected variation in the results. The sources of the variation and modifications taken to minimize them are discussed and presented. Test to test control of coolant flow, coolant temperature, and specific chamber temperature inconsistencies were found to be critically important to a successful effort.